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stay with us. you're about to watch an ad message created by a current tv viewer for capella university. matter. i've been a nurse since 1979. i love being a nurse. a few years ago a friend i went to grade school with showed me a book she had kept from third grade. i had written that i wanted to be a nurse. after being a nurse for about twenty years i decided that i need to further my education. my masters degree was done completely online and that gave me the freedom and ability to do my education while i raised my kids and worked full time. raising my kids as a single mom and having them see me get my education online and work full-time has given them the opportunity to see that they can do anything that they want to. i'm currently the hospital administrator for two public hospitals. we serve patients who might not otherwise get care. i teach an online nursing program. i feel that i'm giving back something to the nurses that are attempting to get their bachelors degree like i did. doing online ed
stay with us. you're about to watch an ad message created by a current tv viewer for capella university. matter. i've been a nurse since 1979. i love being a nurse. a few years ago a friend i went to grade school with showed me a book she had kept from third grade. i had written that i wanted to be a nurse. after being a nurse for about twenty years i decided that i need to further my education. my masters degree was done completely online and that gave me the freedom and ability to do my...
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so glad to have you with us. we're talking with mike magner, the "national journal" energy and environment managing editor. he's also got this terrific book called poisoned legacy, great read about bp's rise to power. bp both on how they handled the gulf coast spill but also some other things in their record. mike, how bad are things in the coast right now? >> oh, boy, there is a long way to go on the cleanup. bp spilled an estimated five million barrels of oil into the gulf and in addition to a lot of natural gas that leaked and then when they were trying to clean it up, they used all of these dispersants, these chemicals that have really never been used on that scale. they cleaned up a lot of it by burning some of it off the surface and scrubbing what landed on the beaches but i talked yesterday to people in louisiana who say that there's still at least a million barrels out there. some of it is in wetlands in louisiana that's really difficult to clean up. and some of it -- because of the dispersants is still f
so glad to have you with us. we're talking with mike magner, the "national journal" energy and environment managing editor. he's also got this terrific book called poisoned legacy, great read about bp's rise to power. bp both on how they handled the gulf coast spill but also some other things in their record. mike, how bad are things in the coast right now? >> oh, boy, there is a long way to go on the cleanup. bp spilled an estimated five million barrels of oil into the gulf and...
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the fbi was using it. hoover was using it to blackmail people. is this really what the fbi -- what we want the fbi doing? don't they have more important things they ought to be doing? than people's sex lives? come on. number one. i don't know why the fbi's involved. number two, i don't know why petraeus felt that he had to resign. he wasn't forced out. he offered ois his ignore -- he offered his resignation. as a country we put sex and human frailty up and put too much importance on it. there's no reason, i believe for david petraeus to have to resign. david vitter is still in the united states senate. newt gingrich ran for president. he's a serial adulter. i'm not saying it's right. i'm saying this one affair and petraeus, we could not accept petraeus as the c.i.a. director? was he a good general? yeah, he was a great general. did he do a good job in iraq? he did a great job at iraq. was was he doing a good job at the c.i.a.? yes. end of story. we place too much importance on this. it just seems to me as americans we were still living in the vic
the fbi was using it. hoover was using it to blackmail people. is this really what the fbi -- what we want the fbi doing? don't they have more important things they ought to be doing? than people's sex lives? come on. number one. i don't know why the fbi's involved. number two, i don't know why petraeus felt that he had to resign. he wasn't forced out. he offered ois his ignore -- he offered his resignation. as a country we put sex and human frailty up and put too much importance on it. there's...
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give us a call at 1-866-55-press. join us on twitter at bpshow. facebook facebook.com -- i mean -- facebook.com/billpress show. i got it right. we've got the whole team here this morning assembled. glad you're with us and very happy to welcome back to the studio, good friend of the program, worked his butt off during this election campaign -- and still am. >> bill: oh, no. major gar fret "national journal." >> i'm wearing the beleaguered garb of a writer who is on debt line. i have the cover story to file by 11:00 eastern and i've been up since 4:30 this morning. that's why i'm dressed a bit informally and yes it is not a good hair day, ladies and gentlemen. i will concede that openly. [ laughter ] >> bill: you start keeping those hours and you're really a member of the full court staff here. >> major starts drifting off and tapping away at the computer, you know he's working on his keys. >> indeed i am. >> bill: with peter ogborn and dan henning and cyprian bowlding our videographer, phil backert has the phones this morning. hello. >> good mornin
give us a call at 1-866-55-press. join us on twitter at bpshow. facebook facebook.com -- i mean -- facebook.com/billpress show. i got it right. we've got the whole team here this morning assembled. glad you're with us and very happy to welcome back to the studio, good friend of the program, worked his butt off during this election campaign -- and still am. >> bill: oh, no. major gar fret "national journal." >> i'm wearing the beleaguered garb of a writer who is on debt...
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we invite you to follow us on twitter at bpshow. you can also follow us on facebook please. facebook.com/billpressshow or go to current.com and join the chat room where you can join all of your other "full court pressers" across the land debating the issues of the day and having a big morning conversation, a little town hall among yourselves. good to see you today. thank you for joining us. and we have a very special hour for you this hour. to talk about the white house fellows program. a program i've been familiar with for a long time. have admired very much. i've gotten to know some of the people involved. wanted you to get to know them as well. and we begin by welcoming to the program, the director of the white house fellows program under president barack obama. cindy moelis. thanks for coming in. >> thanks forinviting us. >> bill: best and the brightest. >> thanks for inviting us. >> bill: look forward to getting to see them. our regular team, almost all here. peter ogborn off for a couple of days. dan henning is flying the 747 with the help of phil backert on phones som
we invite you to follow us on twitter at bpshow. you can also follow us on facebook please. facebook.com/billpressshow or go to current.com and join the chat room where you can join all of your other "full court pressers" across the land debating the issues of the day and having a big morning conversation, a little town hall among yourselves. good to see you today. thank you for joining us. and we have a very special hour for you this hour. to talk about the white house fellows...
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again, give us a call. tweet us or go on facebook.com. to join us, to look at the political landscape this first half hour, david catanese is political reporter with politico. good to see you. >> happy election day. >> bill: you've got it covered. >> absolutely. >> bill: we'll talk about the president, senate, house races. our team is here. peter ogborn, dan henning. >> we didn't get the day off to go vote, huh? i'm kidding. we're getting out of here a little early. >> bill: you're done in another hour. you have the whole day. >> i'm kidding. >> bill: until 1:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. >> i'll be there if i have to. >> bill: take a sandwich. >> bill: cyprian bowlding, our videographer. phil backert has the phones covered. it is also a day to look back and before we get into -- this primary has been -- >> think progress went through and collected for us some of the highlights of this election 2012. who will ever forget newt gingrich's -- the most important plank in his platform? >> we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it wi
again, give us a call. tweet us or go on facebook.com. to join us, to look at the political landscape this first half hour, david catanese is political reporter with politico. good to see you. >> happy election day. >> bill: you've got it covered. >> absolutely. >> bill: we'll talk about the president, senate, house races. our team is here. peter ogborn, dan henning. >> we didn't get the day off to go vote, huh? i'm kidding. we're getting out of here a little...
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i thank al gore for bringing this to us and bringing you to us. you mentioned something yesterday about -- this is the holiday season. i know thanksgiving isn't a religious holiday. however, you said people who think separation of church and state is a conservative thought. >> john: it is. >> caller: i'm a prerogative liberal, please explain what i'm doing wrong, when i think my church should not be telling me about my politics. >> john: you are doing nothing wrong. was just at mass with my mother and they read the letter from the bishop saying it is important to vote but we won't tell you how to vote but if you vote for people that believe in gay marriage your legs will be burned off. but, you know, again i say all the time, when you are talking with your right-wing relatives remind them the founding fathers wanted this wall between church and state so you are the conservative on this issue. whenever we can remind people that the irony is the liberals are the real conservatives. in my book no gop president has balanced a budget since nixon. and w
i thank al gore for bringing this to us and bringing you to us. you mentioned something yesterday about -- this is the holiday season. i know thanksgiving isn't a religious holiday. however, you said people who think separation of church and state is a conservative thought. >> john: it is. >> caller: i'm a prerogative liberal, please explain what i'm doing wrong, when i think my church should not be telling me about my politics. >> john: you are doing nothing wrong. was just...
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but it's personal to us. it's only a question of how long ago many of our families came into the united states. many of us were here before the united states. so it really is a continuum, so we can still relate to the newly arrived immigrant. and there are so many of us throughout, as i say kind of a continuum of the length of time we have been in this country. when you have arizona, and those kind of laws and the extreme rhetoric of the tea party, it does filter across all latino communities. you can't have kids chanting usa, usa, usa, arizona, when five citizen latino kids take the basketball court in two different cities in texas unless something bad is happening out there. so something has to stop. >> congressman i want to ask two questions going forward about the republicans. you are already hearing some of them. i read that republicans should embrace, immigration reform amnesty, learn to say the word. so my questions are what do you think the prospects are of the republican party coming to that position
but it's personal to us. it's only a question of how long ago many of our families came into the united states. many of us were here before the united states. so it really is a continuum, so we can still relate to the newly arrived immigrant. and there are so many of us throughout, as i say kind of a continuum of the length of time we have been in this country. when you have arizona, and those kind of laws and the extreme rhetoric of the tea party, it does filter across all latino communities....
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good to have you with us. it's such a beautiful morning i decided to wear one of my favorite scarves. this red scarf here. it is a carol press scarf go to the website at bill press show.com and check it out. this is the number one seller, you can tell why i love it. >> bill, you look smoking hot. >> bill: you're thinking about holiday gifts there's nothing better and nothing keeping people warmer than my good carol press scarf. peter, what's happening on the world of chat room, twitter facebook. >> we are on twitter right now @bpshow asking you how you feel. value writes i'm smiling so wide that i'm wearing lipstick on my ears. never heard that before. kate ryan saying nursing one hell of a hangover this morning but nothing can take the shine off my happiness today. speaking of hank overs rum and coke party u.s.a. tweeting saying karl rove has internal polls that show romney still winning this race. >> bill: yes! karl rove and dick morris are saying no, it's not over yet. talk about having egg on your face. >>
good to have you with us. it's such a beautiful morning i decided to wear one of my favorite scarves. this red scarf here. it is a carol press scarf go to the website at bill press show.com and check it out. this is the number one seller, you can tell why i love it. >> bill, you look smoking hot. >> bill: you're thinking about holiday gifts there's nothing better and nothing keeping people warmer than my good carol press scarf. peter, what's happening on the world of chat room,...
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will he use it? he's got the power. will he use it to get done what we've got to get done in this next four years? and will he use it to pound these republicans into coming on a sensible deal on the fiscal cliff? got the power. use it or lose it. >> this is the full court press, "the bill press show," live on your radio, and on current tv. [ music ] that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. we've got to get done in this current tv.smocks [ music ] [ music ] >> this is "the bill press show" >> bill: here we go 26 minutes after the hour on a friday, friday, november 30th. my latest column is about this susan rice nonsense. heading my column is: what did susan rice know? and when did she know it? check out the column at billpressshow.com. we are talking about president obama won this election overwhelmingly when everybody said he didn't have a chance getting re
will he use it? he's got the power. will he use it to get done what we've got to get done in this next four years? and will he use it to pound these republicans into coming on a sensible deal on the fiscal cliff? got the power. use it or lose it. >> this is the full court press, "the bill press show," live on your radio, and on current tv. [ music ] that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience...
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stay with us. you're about to watch an viewer created ad message for little caesars who proudly salutes united states veterans everywhere. >> clarksville is a small town on the tennesse/kentucky boader and it is a really great place to raise a family. my name is lloyd allard i was a chief officer in the special forces, i was in the army for 23 years. i have made 1400 parachute jumps. well, my experience in the military was varied. i spent a lot of time in iraq, a lot of time in kuwait. i did two tours in iraq and i decided it was time to do something different with my life. i saw little caesars as a way to give something back to my family. the little caesars veterans program provides financial support and equipment when you open your store. the little caesars veterans program give me a sense of ownership and pride in my business because i am the owner of this business. as a former military person i did not have the business experience and little caesars provided the training and support along the w
stay with us. you're about to watch an viewer created ad message for little caesars who proudly salutes united states veterans everywhere. >> clarksville is a small town on the tennesse/kentucky boader and it is a really great place to raise a family. my name is lloyd allard i was a chief officer in the special forces, i was in the army for 23 years. i have made 1400 parachute jumps. well, my experience in the military was varied. i spent a lot of time in iraq, a lot of time in kuwait. i...
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stay with us. ♪ created ad message for little caesars who proudly salutes unites states veterans everywhere. >> hi, i'm rick loz. i joined the united states air force in 1987. as i was leaving the service i went into a civilian career for a little bit but i was looking for a little bit more than what the civilian career had to offer me and that's when learned about the little caesars veterans program. the little caesars veterans program helps the veterans transition to civilian life. they give them credits and discounts on the things that they are going to need to help open a new store. it was a program that they were just starting to kick off and i got the honor of being the very first veteran. i have three kids and boy, they were very happy to help out. i had one as a cashier, one worked a some of the other stations making pizza in the back. they really enjoyed owning a franchise. one of the other great benefits about owning your own franchise is you can determine how big you want to make it. i
stay with us. ♪ created ad message for little caesars who proudly salutes unites states veterans everywhere. >> hi, i'm rick loz. i joined the united states air force in 1987. as i was leaving the service i went into a civilian career for a little bit but i was looking for a little bit more than what the civilian career had to offer me and that's when learned about the little caesars veterans program. the little caesars veterans program helps the veterans transition to civilian life....
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give us a call at 1-866-55-press. follow us on twitter at bp show. go to facebook. facebook.com/billpressshow or go to our chat room. current.com, click on the chat room. you're in to talk about the issues with your fellow progressives across the land. and today i mean you're -- your lucky day. you get chris kofinis. >> wow! >> bill: the greek god himself. >> very small sample of god -- >> bill: greece is known for having a lot of things. >> right now greece is known for not being able to do math. we created math. we just wanted to be able to follow through on it. we had a good run. first through centuries was good. >> bill: i think the arabs created math. >> hey, let's not get crazy. i'll get my dad on this phone right now. >> bill: peter ogborn and dan henning. >> good morning. >> with cyprian bowlding our videographer gets the big wave. we don't let him talk. so joe biden uncle joe. >> uncle joe. i have a couple of uncles like joe. >> bill: let joe be joe. i think he is at his best when he's just -- they let biden be biden. he was out yesterday on the campaign tr
give us a call at 1-866-55-press. follow us on twitter at bp show. go to facebook. facebook.com/billpressshow or go to our chat room. current.com, click on the chat room. you're in to talk about the issues with your fellow progressives across the land. and today i mean you're -- your lucky day. you get chris kofinis. >> wow! >> bill: the greek god himself. >> very small sample of god -- >> bill: greece is known for having a lot of things. >> right now greece is...
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find us there. give us your hash tag. my2k. we'll retweet it and share it with our viewers and listeners. l camp says my 2k helps us pay for our son's preschool. gayle says it keeps a roof over my head for two months. it is more than a year of electric bills. someone came to you and said -- >> bill: put that in perspective. >> boom. you have to find a way to pay for your electric bills from now on. >> bill: what john boehner is saying is screw you! you find some other way to pay for your electric bill. find some other way to pay two months rent. find some other way to fund your i.r.a. that's exactly what they're saying. they don't care about the middle class. >> dave farkas on twitter says if i get to keep my 2k, i would give it to a billionaire so he could pay his taxes. >> bill: that's all he would be paying. lennie chiming in from kenosha wisconsin. how are you? >> caller: good. how you doing? >> bill: good. what's it all mean to you my2k? >> caller: i had mentioned that i would like to buy all of my christmas presents with
find us there. give us your hash tag. my2k. we'll retweet it and share it with our viewers and listeners. l camp says my 2k helps us pay for our son's preschool. gayle says it keeps a roof over my head for two months. it is more than a year of electric bills. someone came to you and said -- >> bill: put that in perspective. >> boom. you have to find a way to pay for your electric bills from now on. >> bill: what john boehner is saying is screw you! you find some other way to...
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stay with us. going to do the young turks. i think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they know that i'm not bs'ing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know that i'm going to be the first one to call them out. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. [ piano plays ] troy polamalu's going deeper. ♪ ♪ and so is head & shoulders deep clean. [ male announcer ] with 7 benefits it goes deep to remove grease, gunk and flakes. deep. like me. [ male announcer ] head & shoulders deep clean for men. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] it's that time of year again. time for citi price rewind. because your daughter really wants that pink castle thing. and you really don't want to pay more than you have to. only citi price rewind automatically searches for the lowest price. and if it finds one, y
stay with us. going to do the young turks. i think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they know that i'm not bs'ing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know that i'm going to be the first one to call them out. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. [ piano plays ] troy...
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hey, just call us morning bill. donald francis adds mitch mcconnell's crying about being a minority and not having his voice heard. hey, how about the majority of us whose voice is not being heard because he's so bought off. good point. d says i was absolutely appalled at the number of members of congress who signed the grover norquist pledge. you were spot-on by calling them traitors! and harmony wants us to know her opinion as to why black friday exists peter. i'm from wisconsin she says and grew up with many hunters in the family. the day after thanksgiving was always a big hunting day. black friday started with hunters' wives going shopping because all of the men were out hunting. >> i know a lot of hunting seasons kick off now. >> bill: you know what? that makes a lot of sense to me. they're hunting for deals. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> bill: good morning everybody. welcome to the "full court press" this wednesday morning. november 28. great to see you today. thank you for
hey, just call us morning bill. donald francis adds mitch mcconnell's crying about being a minority and not having his voice heard. hey, how about the majority of us whose voice is not being heard because he's so bought off. good point. d says i was absolutely appalled at the number of members of congress who signed the grover norquist pledge. you were spot-on by calling them traitors! and harmony wants us to know her opinion as to why black friday exists peter. i'm from wisconsin she says and...
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give us a call at 1-866-55-press. join us on twitter and debate the issues on the air. go to current.com click and you are there. lots to talk about in terms of house raises, senate raises. rebekah berg joins us from buzz feed. very exciting with our newark to know presence here. >> we've been holding our end. it's been fun. >> bill: and our regular team here. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> our videographer has got us going. i do have to tell you hurricane sandy struck home this week. my dad had retired to fenwick island delaware, right in the brunt of hurricane sandy. when he passed away, we inherited his home in delaware. went over there to see what might have happened. it's in bad bad shape. >> oh, no! >> bill: yeah, we were flooded and it's really sad to go through your house and find every room, mud, you know, seaweed everywhere. it's going to be major major major rare. we have flood insurance but it's going to be a lot of money and a long time before has house is back. >> that suction. >> bill: if ever. we're the no the only house in that area. it was on the
give us a call at 1-866-55-press. join us on twitter and debate the issues on the air. go to current.com click and you are there. lots to talk about in terms of house raises, senate raises. rebekah berg joins us from buzz feed. very exciting with our newark to know presence here. >> we've been holding our end. it's been fun. >> bill: and our regular team here. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> our videographer has got us going. i do have to tell you hurricane...
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great to see you today, thank you so much for joining us. we invite you to not just watch or listen on current tv and listen on your local progressive talk radio station, but get involved. give us a call at 866-55-press or go to twitter @bpshow on twitter, facebook facebook@billpressshow and in the chat room, you can join all of your fellow full court pressers across the land talking about the issues as we're talking about them. a nice little internal conversation. go to current.com and you are in. joining the team here, dan henning, and peter ogburn. >> happy friday. >> bill: when we talk climate change we turn to the expert joe rome. joe, nice to see you. >> thank for having me. >> bill: thank you for coming in today. >> bill: your latest book, "language intelligence" lessons on persuasion from jesus, shakespeare, lincoln and, lady gaga. that's an interesting lineup. >> have they all endorsed barack obama? [ laughter ] >> bill: we want to get into -- governor cuomo talked about climate change in relation to hurricane sandy and so as mayor
great to see you today, thank you so much for joining us. we invite you to not just watch or listen on current tv and listen on your local progressive talk radio station, but get involved. give us a call at 866-55-press or go to twitter @bpshow on twitter, facebook facebook@billpressshow and in the chat room, you can join all of your fellow full court pressers across the land talking about the issues as we're talking about them. a nice little internal conversation. go to current.com and you are...